Overview: The Mandarin-speaking Han Chinese of France, numbering 172,000, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are part of the Chinese people cluster within the East Asian Peoples affinity bloc. Globally, this group totals 921,613,955 in 85 countries. Their primary language is Mandarin Chinese. The primary religion practiced by the Mandarin-speaking Han Chinese is atheism, which is best described as the rejection of belief that any deities exist.